DeaDBeeF
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is billed as the ultimate music
player for Linux systems.
It is a very basic and simple player with a small footprint.
It has no GNOME or KDE dependencies.
Features include:
- Small memory footprint
- Native GTK2 graphical user interface with custom widgets
- Wide support for different audio formats including MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, FLAC, ape, wv, wav, m4a, mpc, cd audio
(and many more)
- Chiptune formats with subtunes (including sid and nsf)
- ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, xing/info tags
support
- Character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags - supports
cp1251 and iso8859-1
- Unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and
ucs2)
- Cuesheet (.cue files) support, with charset detection
(utf8/cp1251/iso8859-1)
- Tracker modules like mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
- HVSC song length database support for sid
- Minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control
- Drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from
filemanagers and such
- Control playback of DeaDBeeF from the command line
- Global hotkeys
- Multiple playlists
- Album artwork display
- 18-band graphical equalizer
- Metadata editor
- User-customizable groups in playlists
- User-customizable columns with flexible title formatting
- Radio and podcast support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac
streams
- Gapless playback
- Plugin support; bundled with lots of plugins, such as
global hotkeys and last.fm scrobbler
- Duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3
files (with and without xing/info tags)

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